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Explore approaches and partnerships to reach children, young people and parents in community settings.

  • Mental health & wellbeing — 16 Feb 2022

    HeadStart Cornwall - Community Approaches

    HeadStart Kernow’s Community and Youth Facilitators aim to support children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing by providing direct, face-to-face support to individual and groups of young people aged between 10 and 16, and by linking young people, families and community organisations together across the county.

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  • Mental health & wellbeing — 16 Feb 2022

    HeadStart Cornwall - Community Approaches

    HeadStart Kernow have developed an extended offer of mental health and wellbeing support to parents and carers in Cornwall, including a wellbeing series, trauma-informed Supporting Parents and Children Emotionally (SPACE) programme, and online wellbeing courses, designed to promote the mental health and wellbeing of parents and families to produce long-term, sustainable outcomes.

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  • Mental health & wellbeing — 9 Feb 2022

    HeadStart Hull - Community approaches

    HeadStart Hull’s aim to make young people’s mental health ‘everybody’s business’ relies on strong partnership working. Read more about their work here.

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  • Community approaches — 1 Oct 2021

    HeadStart Newham – Community approaches

    HeadStart Newham’s Being a Parent service evolved from the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) course, adapted during HeadStart’s piloting phase for parents of children aged 9-16.

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